The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
Meaning of the quote
The quote suggests that the human race is like a region or area where all living beings exist. To understand the human race better, we need to carefully examine and define the boundaries or limits of this region. In other words, we should study the characteristics and features that make the human race unique and distinct from other living things.
About Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was an acclaimed Italian writer and journalist known for his bestselling works like the Our Ancestors trilogy, Cosmicomics, and novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter’s night a traveler. He was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death and is buried in Tuscany.
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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